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    Now operating at full power, the Holometer uses a pair of interferometers placed close to one another. Each one sends a one-kilowatt laser beam (the equivalent of 200,000 laser pointers) at a beam splitter and down two perpendicular 40-meter arms. The light is then reflected back to the beam splitter where the two beams recombine, creating fluctuations in brightness if there is motion. Researchers analyze these fluctuations in the returning light to see if the beam splitter is moving in a certain way—being carried along on a jitter of space itself.

    http://holometer.fnal.gov/
    http://motherboard.vice.com/read…

    • experiment to test if we live in a 2-D hologram, aka The Matrix.
      uan
    • I bet the researches themselves cringe at that Vice headline.
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